Lynne K. Miyake received
her B.A. from the University of Southern California and her M.A. in
Comparative Literature and Ph.D. in Japanese literature from the
University of California at Berkeley. She works on Heian prose
narratives dealing with issues of narration, gender, and cultural
studies, including manga adaptations of
The Tale of Genji.
She has published articles on the
manga versions of
The Tale
of Genji and the tale (in Japanese and English), on
The Kagerô
Diary, and
The Tosa Diary as well as on the impact of
translation on the formulation of the canon of Japanese literature in
the U.S. She has received Japan Foundation and National Endowment for
the Humanities fellowships to do a study of the performative,
interactive role of the reader, text, and narrator in Heian texts and is
presently working on a book manuscript on the manga versions of
The Tale of Genji.

Dr. Bruce Coats graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in
American History and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University.
After serving in the US Navy, he completed a Master's degree at the
University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD at Harvard University.

He has received various research grants,
including a Fulbright Fellowship to Japan and a Mellon Grant in 2008 to
conduct a faculty workshop "Teaching the Tale of Genji in the
21st Century."

Since 1985 he has taught art history and the
humanities at Scripps College, part of the Claremont Colleges
Consortium.

Among the class he offers are:

Arts of Japan

Arts of China

The Tale of Genji

Arts of Zen Buddhism

The History of Gardens, East
and West

18th Century European Arts

In 2006 he curated an
exhibition "CHIKANOBU: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints" which
toured seven museums in the US and Japan, and for which he produced a
catalog, the first survey of Chikanobu's career written in English or
Japanese. In October 2012 Scripps College will open the exhibition
"Prince Genji's World in Japanese Prints" which will also have a catalog
and will tour five museums around the US.